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I have a lighted Santa from 1948, and several plush lighted window wreaths from the 1950s.  A total of 11 in all.  A few years ago, I replaced the manual switches at the wall sockets with smart plugs.  I am always bemused that I have a combination of technologies spanning most of a century working together.  BTW, the ornaments are on their second wiring rebuild!  I am a little later than you, as I traditionally put them up on Black Friday while I am cowing in my house from the frenzied shopping mobs.  🙂

 

It looks to be most useful for those odd programs which you use but don’t rate a shortcut, and are used infrequently enough that you have to hunt around a bit for the Start Menu link.  It does bring up URLs with lighning speed compared to opening the browser and then the URL.  Unfortunately it does not seem to support Universal apps gracefully.

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NaNoNyMouse, Cybertooth

I am using the desktop 2019 program.  I gave in to the temptation to try the new version, since it promised to allow me to switch back.  Unfortunately, the new version locked up, preventing me from easily doing that.   A few minutes with my backup program repaired my error of judgement.

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roadster1024, gwt10, teuhasn2

My experience exactly.  My Epson 1200U is still working with VueScan on my WIN10 machine, and someone I know has used it with WIN11. It has outlived 4 computers and 3 versions of Windows.  It doesn’t get heavy usage these days, mostly around tax time, but it and VueScan have always been reliable.

 

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SupremeLaW

There are 9 options under the Sync setting.  By incrementally enabling them, I have found that only the Favorites choice causes a problem.  For my usage, a trivial issue.  Something I can check monthly, or after an update, to see if it has fixed itself.  Or perhaps I will stumble over a fix while looking for something else.  Again, thanks all for your patience and input.

Great program.  I have the pro version, and if necessary, will use that.   Knock on wood, it looks like that might not be necessary.

All,

Progress, and maybe success.  While I was trying to get back to sleep, I decided to uninstall Edge from my phone, then reinstall it.  Of course, I declined the sync option, and Edge worked fine.  Having a fix, I turned syncing back on, and it has been working for 5+ hours using the current vision of Edge.

After I got alejr’s post, it occurred to me that if there is a syncing issue, if it couldn’t sync it wouldn’t crash.  (Not strictly rigorous thinking, but worth a shot.)  I disconnected the cable from the desktop, and sure enough, Edge stayed open.  This allowed me to access the settings at my leisure and turn off syncing. With internet restored, no syncing, things are back to normal, with extensions enabled.

I am going to leave everything as it is for a day or so before turning the desktop syncing back on, or working with the Surface tablet. It is rarely used these days, so even if restoring syncing can’t be done right now, there is no real loss.

There are bits and pieces of suggestions here from several people, and I thank you all for getting me to this place.

Alan

 

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Alex5723, b

I had to research that a bit to be certain, but definitely not.  Thanks for the idea, though.

Not yet.  As you know, MS considers it part of Windows, so you cannot use the standard removal method.  It can be removed, at least temporarily using other methods and programs, but I have been holding off on that.  I will try that later today on my secondary computer.

The Android version of Edge doesn’t support extensions.  The app was updated today at 1208 PM, which partially explains why it was working in the morning, but not now.

I have started the Windows version with all extensions disabled, but it closes just the same.  I haven’t had much luck in actually uninstalling them in the 5-10 seconds available.  🙂

Tonight when I grabbed my Android phone to use Edge, after 5-10 seconds, it closed with the following message:  “Something went wrong with Edge.  Edge closed because this app has a bug.  Try updating this app after its developer provides a fix for this error.”  Both the Chrome and DuckDuckGo apps work perfectly.

I am cursed.  That is the only possible explanation.  😉

 

And to add, I looked for some other places such as the tmp and temp variables.  They all point to the normal drives which they have been using for literally years.

alejr,

Thanks for the input.  The HKLM did have a branch for Edge, but it was for a “Webwidget” with the value “0” showing.

When I said “rollback” I was imprecise.  Sorry!  I backup daily using Acronis, and so have a full image to restore.  So everything was replace with the earlier version which of course solved the problem, temporarily.

This seems to be a very unusual problem.  Otherwise The Patch Lady (TPL) would have known about it. The fact that is happening on two very different machines, both mine, means there is some very obscure interaction between another piece of software common to both machines, or some obscure setting.

I have already tried by removing the easy stuff from starting up.  Time permitting, I am going to experiment with variation of clean boot using other tools.  I have Chrome running for minimal use, but as you know, it is never as simple as just using the import function.  😉

Alan

 

 

No.  I checked the virtual memory settings, and it is being handled by the system, with every thing on the C drive.

Yes, the 9/13 offered updates, no “seeking.”  I did, before rolling back, try the preview in desperation, but no help there.  The version of Edge is 105.0.1343.53 (Official build) (64-bit).